New Artificial Intelligence Does Something Extraordinary, It Remembers!

New Artificial Intelligence Does Something Extraordinary, It Remembers!

When you return to school after summer break, it may feel like you forgot everything you learned the year before. But if you learned like an AI system does, you actually would have — as you sat down for your first day of class, your brain would take that as a cue to wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.

AI systems’ tendency to forget the things it previously learned upon taking on new information is called catastrophic forgetting.